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PHIL 1500 (UGA)
Logic and Critical Thinking (3 semester hours)

Web Course Format: ALISSA

This course can be taken
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    -> as a print course

Lessons for this course can be submitted and/or be returned
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Not open to students with credit in UGA PHIL 1500H.

The principles and standards for thinking and communicating clearly and effectively. Topics include theories of meaning, uses of language, common causes of confusion and error in thought and argument, and evaluation of arguments.

Requirements: Eleven lessons and one examination.

Instructor: Bryan Baird, Ph.D., The University of Georgia.

Text: Govier, A Practical Study of Argument, 6th ed., Wadsworth, 2005.